Stakeholder Consultation

From April-June 2015, Justice Analytical Services conducted a
consultation of stakeholders and users of the suite of publications
based on returns from Police Scotland, which includes the Homicide
in Scotland statistical bulletin series. The main objectives of
this consultation were to: understand who the users are, what their
requirements for data are and the benefits of any new suggested
structure and content; guide the future strategy for how, when and
what we publish regarding police data; and identify improvements
that will ease and increase the use of police data in the
future.

Reflecting our commitment to user engagement and to the
establishment of a broad evidence base to inform our future
publications, we used a variety of consultation methods to capture
the views of both expert and non-expert users. This included
one-to-one interviews, user group discussions, social media
interaction and written surveys.

Justice Analytical Services reflected on the feedback received
from the consultation during the production of this bulletin and
the previous one. This included continual development of new
graphics to highlight the main points conveyed by these
statistics.

We always welcome feedback on the content of our statistical
bulletins and users are welcome to submit their comments to:
JusticeAnalysts@gov.scot.